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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Impulsivity
Reading Comprehension Support
CTOPP
2. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Six basic types of syllables
Academic Achievement Tests
Criterion-Referenced Test
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
3. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Chall's Stage 3
VC
Mastery level
Letter naming Chart
4. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Progress Monitoring
Grade equivalents
Phonics
5. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Syllable
Great Vowel Shift
Cognitive Assessment
Phonics
6. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Towre
NICHD
The Norman Conquest
VV
7. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Age equivalent
Tilde
Norm-referenced tests
Phonics
8. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Impulsivity
Morpheme
Cognitive Assessment
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
9. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Six basic types of syllables
Phonological Awareness
Letter naming Chart
Greek layer of language
10. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Middle English
Rate
Chall's Stage 4
11. Whole body learning
Phonemic/ decodable words
Kinesthetic
Standard deviation
Texas Education Code 28.06
12. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Grapheme
Oral Language
Closed Syllable
VC
13. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Prefix
Combination
Texas Education Code 28.06
14. r-controlled syllable
Vr
Tilde
Pre-English
Syllable Instruction
15. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Academic Achievement Tests
Tilde
Sight Words
16. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Analytic
Open Syllable
Towre
Synthetic Instruction
17. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Analytic
Cedilla
Macron
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
18. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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19. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Towre
Phoneme
WIATII
Norm-Referenced Test
20. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Grade equivalents
Chall's Stage 1
Synthetic Instruction
21. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Anglo Saxon
Diagnostic tests
Top-down Reading Approach
Orthography
22. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Funding
Reading Comprehension Support
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Suffix
23. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Cognition
Profile
Sight Words
Middle English
24. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Grapheme
James Hinshelwood
RTI
Diphthong
25. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Cognition
Affix
Derivative
Frank Smith
26. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
IMSLEC
Phonemic/ decodable words
Academic Achievement Tests
Cognitive Assessment
27. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Derivative
Anna Gillingham
Syntax
Percentile/ percentile rank
28. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Digraph
WRAT
Auditory Processing
29. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Attention
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
V >
30. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Universal Screening
VV
Impulsivity
Closed Syllable
31. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
MSLE
Norm-Referenced Test
Phonics approach
32. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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33. Academic Language Therapy Association
Joe Torgesen
VAKT
ALTA
Chall's Stage 4
34. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
WIATII
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Criterion-Referenced Test
The Norman Conquest
35. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
RTI
Visual Processing
Consonant Digraph
36. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
V >
Cognition
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Quadrigraph
37. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
Sound Symbol Association
Multi-Sensory Approach
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
38. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
Combination
Dyslexia
Oral Language
39. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Cedilla
Reading Comprehension Support
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Reliability
40. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
IMSLEC
Cognition
Academic Achievement Tests
Trigraph
41. Feeling through fingertips
Tactile
Trigraph
Great Vowel Shift
Matthew Effect
42. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Syllable
Direct Instruction
Matthew Effect
43. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Standard deviation
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Six basic types of syllables
Syllable
44. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Breve
Matthew Effect
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Tilde
45. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Cedilla
Grade equivalents
Matthew Effect
Modern English
46. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Standardized test
Anglo Saxon
CTOPP
V-e
47. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
WRAT
Expressive language
IEP
Fluency
48. Individual Educational Plan
Cognition
Multi-Sensory Approach
IEP
Letter naming Chart
49. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
SBOE
Syllable Instruction
Curriculum referenced tests
Chall's Stage 0
50. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Accent
Middle English
Raw score
Reliability